Quotes about Perception

The world sees christians as people who use faith as a crutch. How wrong they are. The biggest crutch of all is deceit.

God always fulfills His promises but not always the way we imagine.

God reminded Samuel that the human mind has an overwhelming tendency to make assumptions based on appearances. God's choices don't always make sense to us, but they are never haphazard or random.

While we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord—for we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:6—7

When researchers try to break down what is happening at Mosaic, far too often they see the skin and miss the heart.

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, What does this represent? What does it stand for? They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.

You're supposed to learn that things that you think are nothing, as weightless as air, are actually powerful substantial forces, as real and as solid as earth.   I understood. The eagle was telling me that dreams, visions, meditations such as this very one—things that I had till now disdained as fantasy and illusion—were as real and as solid as anything in my waking life.

He looks upon sky and steppe and sees that which God has created. I look and see God Himself.